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‖ midinette|midinɛt|
[Fr. Perh. orig. a portmanteau word f. midi mid-day + dînette light dinner: cf. 1922 Larousse s.v., les midinettes sont celles qui se contentent d'une dînette à midi.]
A milliner's female assistant, esp. in Paris.
1909Westm. Gaz. 7 Aug. 15/1 The Parisian..is tired of the absurd hat. The midinette and those of her kind have made it impossible. 1919Beerbohm Seven Men 11 A midinette who..murdered, or was about to murder, a mannequin. 1925Brit. Weekly 19 Feb. 498/2 She was in the same class with the midinettes of Paris, with whom travelling Englishmen spend a passing hour and quickly forget. 1932Sellar & Yeatman And now All This vi. 60 In the South, the beautiful Midi, one does not perceive the beautiful Race of the Midinettes (hélas). 1958J. Macgregor Glamour in Your Lens 84 She'll..be prepared to transform herself on the spot into..a French midinette. 1961R. Searle Which Way did he Go? 38 He firmly believes that the Boulevards abound with Midinettes who are dazzled with admiration for him. 1975R. Cobb Paris & its Provinces 3 Some story in which a midinette meets a Duc. |